Opening remarks at the "Strengthening Climate Change Adaptation Research : Mobilizing and Enabling International Research Partnerships" forum, IDRC, Feb. 6, 2007
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2007
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IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA
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“…We are reminded by the Stern Report and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the need to situate national research efforts in an international setting … We have a global challenge before us demanding scientific collaboration and collective political action...” These opening remarks by IDRC past president Maureen O’Neil call for global collaboration in climate change mitigation. Whereas the IDRC’s primary mandate is to support research in the Global South, Canadian government departments and research funding councils have a mandate to build Canadian expertise. “But we also have the choice to do things collaboratively…”
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ADAPTIVE CAPACITY, PARTNERSHIP, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, RESEARCH NEEDS, COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH, IPCC, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, IDRC, CONFERENCE, CANADA, GLOBAL SOUTH
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